Jessica Wallace

A Kamloops man who spent the last three months in hospital recovering from a head injury has been released from hospital in time to learn that charges have been laid against his alleged assailant and he is grateful to be alive. Michael Forry, 46, of Mackenzie, was released from Lions Gate Hospital on Tuesday and...

Any journalist knows, the world is not all sunshines and butterflies. I was reminded of it this morning as I assembled my regular daily story list. A convicted rapist is in the Kamloops courthouse this week for a dangerous offender hearing to potentially put him away for good. A man was found dead last night at...

TRU Students' Union President Dylan Robinson is unhappy about an increase to tuition fees come fall of this year. Tuition will rise two per cent, which means about $38 more for a full-time domestic student per semester. TRU vice president of advancement, Christopher Seguin says fees rise with costs, but regulations in place prevent fees...

UPDATE: 3:07 p.m. June 14, 2013 The man killed while riding his bicycle on the Trans-Canada Highway last night has been identified. He was Richard David Dean McGillivray, 57, from Kamloops. The B.C. Coroners Service says McGillivray was riding his bicycle eastbound on Highway 1 about 22 km west of Kamloops just before 6 p.m....

Kamloops has a new top cop. Insp. Brad Mueller is the new Officer in Charge of the Kamloops detachment following former Supt. Yves Lacasse's decision to leave and take a job with KGHM International. A press release issued today on the RCMP's provincial website revealed some early details about the new man in charge. No...

Her voice was shaky as she slowly revealed her story. "It felt like an hour to me, but I think it was probably about 25 minutes to half an hour," she said. The story is one the woman has lived with for the past eight years. While she's trying to let it go, she said she's...

A sexual offender program completed by convicted rapist Jack Froese before his latest conviction was no guarantee he wouldn't reoffend. Testimony continued today in a dangerous offender hearing in Kamloops Supreme Court for the Saskatoon man. Psychiatric nurse Lynda Hollingshead testified today over video conference from Saskatoon's Regional Psychiatric Centre. "When somebody completes your program, they're not cured...

The lone accused to plead guilty in Kamloops' jail sex scandal was sentenced to a conditional discharge today in B.C. Supreme Court. David Tompkins, 49, pleaded guilty to breach of trust in May, six days into a preliminary inquiry for himself and multiple police officers accused of watching two inebriated women — one of which is...

Interior Health Authority believes a province-wide warning about the drug fentanyl may be linked to multiple cases over the past couple weeks in Kamloops. Dr. Trevor Corneil, Interior Health Authority medical health officer, said between three to five overdose or close-overdose cases have emerged in Kamloops in the last two weeks among injection drug users....

For those who were sad to learn this week that there would no longer be a strip club in Kamloops — relief. After news broke here this week about the Duchess on Tranquille changing ownership and no longer hosting exotic dancers, it appears the deal has fallen through. As the sole location to host strippers...

Tuition is going up at TRU, but some students haven't got the message. Students can find out through the minutes of the most recent board of governor's meeting - where the decision was made, but the university didn't send out a notification to their paying customers of a two per cent increase to tuition beginning...

MAN SENTENCED TO YEAR IN JAIL FOR BREAKING NOSE, ORBITAL SOCKET OF BYSTANDER A 24-year-old man was handed one year in jail after assaulting an innocent bystander while trying to rob a Kamloops bank last year. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Dev Dley hesitated at accepting a joint submission by Crown prosecutor Chris Balison and defence...

The Duchess On Tranquille will no longer be hosting exotic dancing after a change in ownership takes place on June 10. The bar is looking to attract a broader crowd and contribute to the changing landscape of North Kamloops. It will continue as a restaurant and pub with the possibility of expanding into a nightclub...

KAMLOOPS — Two Kamloops residents were surprised to hear of a shooting in their neighbourhood after moving away from notoriously crime-ridden Surrey, B.C. earlier this year. Mick and Kathy Baker lived in Kamloops 22 years before moving to explore a multitude of Canadian cities for over a decade. After around five years in Surrey, they...